COFFEE DRINKERS ADVICE NEEDED!
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Love reading all the solutions-- :drinker: :drinker: :drinker: three cheers to my fellow coffee addicts.
I used to use half and half, with 2t of sugar. Over time, I just cut back..... To 1t of sugar.....then no sugar, just cream....blah, blah, blah--
now, I drink it black, and love it.
Took a while to get there, but really appreciate not worrying about those extra calories.0 -
I went from adding stuff to my coffee to drinking it black. It took a bit of time to make the transition, but now I prefer it black. As a result, my calories per cup are less than 5. The other surprise is that it actually tastes like actual coffee, instead of a deserty kind of drink. :drinker:0
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I use a Premier Protein Shake (chocolate or vanilla) mixed in my coffee. I drink about 3 large cups of coffee every morning, so I split my shake into thirds. One shake is 30 grams of protein and 160 calories with very few carbs, so I substitute this for breakfast. You can add a little sugar free Torani syrup if you'd like it sweeter, but I'm trying to wean myself off of that.0
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I got around the worst of my coffee vs. calorie issue by buying freshly roasted coffee beans and a grinder. Then learning to drink black coffee.
To be honest I do spend a lot of time sniffing the beans in the bag whilst I'm waiting for the water to boil.:embarassed:
It works for me ... but yes, probably only for me!
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What I add depends on the coffee.
At work and home, I drink black with nothing.
At Starbucks, I drink black with nothing.
At McDonalds I add 1 sugar
At Dunkin Donuts I add 1 sweatener
At restaurants I add different things or nothing depending on the taste.
On a side note, I am always amazed at people that add 12 sugars to coffee. Why not just buy a milkshake?0 -
I choose 1tbsp of bailey's fat free french vanilla creamer. It has 25 calories per serving. I never measured my creamer before mfp. The coffee isn't as flavorful but I am slowly getting used to it. Coffee is well worth the calories!0
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I'm a coffee drinker can't wake up with no a milk sugared coffee in the morning or even when I'm with a friend and having a nice and long conversation, I'm not worry at all about the few calories it can contains, just makes me laugh the calorie of 2 ts of sugar with all the exercise I do...plus I give myselg a right go as beginning of the day !! I love it !!!0
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Coffeemate Natural Bliss Vanilla. For almost the sole fact, it has ingredients I can pronounce. On the bonus side it does taste good too!0
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Milk or cream. I like my coffee way, way too much. I guess that is part of living in the Pacific Northwest is having a cup of joe every where you go.
Most days I just use 2% milk, but on the weekends I like to have some half and half in my coffee. Cinnamon is also very good sprinkled on top. Cinnamon is an anti-inflammatory spice, so it can help you heal after a particularly hard workout, too.
I have never thought about using cinnamon!! That's awesome! Thank you!! ... I am really not a fan of Starbucks coffee, but I worked there for 3 years. Coffee is DEFINITELY a perk of living in the the PNW!
Thanks for the tip!0 -
The days when I drank a pot of coffee and more a day are past now, but I still drink several cups of decaf a day (Mother Nature's Magic Wand O' Change took away my immunity to caffeine, sob). half and half, measured with a tablespoon for accuracy and Equal are how I like it.
Gave up too much else over the years to not at least have my coffee how I like it. :drinker:0 -
I got, as a gift, this wonderful little foamer thing, it heats and foams on one setting and then just foams for cold beverages on the other setting,
I think it is a little pricy because not only does it foam from the rotating thingy at the bottom it does the heating thing and so it has an electric base, the actual foamer is stainless with handle,
anyway I put splenda in the foamer and my coffee cup, sometimes Torani or DaVinci syrups, like my coffee very sweet,
then I put one fourth to one half cup of almond milk, 40-45 calories, into the foamer,
I realized that just adding almond milk was not working, my coffee looked grey--yuk==
the foamer disguises the color of the coffee, thats all I see is the creamy foam, tastes the same to me,
coffee is a low calorie treat for me, but it must look like the ritual it is,
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What I add depends on the coffee.
At work and home, I drink black with nothing.
At Starbucks, I drink black with nothing.
At McDonalds I add 1 sugar
At Dunkin Donuts I add 1 sweatener
At restaurants I add different things or nothing depending on the taste.
On a side note, I am always amazed at people that add 12 sugars to coffee. Why not just buy a milkshake?
LOL!!!! If I put a sweetened creamer in my coffee I don't need sugar. If I'm just using creamer and sugar, it's about 2 packs of sugar. I agree though! 12 sugars is a little excessive haha!0 -
I have a K-cup maker and drink flavored coffees when I want something sweet (Pumpkin, French Vanilla, Butterscotch, etc) My daily routine is to make 2 k-cups and add 7 mini moos. The coffee is 4 calories and the minimoos are about 10 calories each. I buy unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze milk for my cereal but have not yet tried the sweetened version in my coffee but that might be an option. It's 60 calories per CUP so peanuts when you measure out a couple of tablespoons. Have you tried Stevia? I haven't tried that yet but I'm not one for adding sugar to anything unless I'm baking.0
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I use Stevia-in-the-Raw (about one packet per cup of coffee), and then I add either light original soy or light vanilla soy milk (somewhere around 2-3 TBSP). That stevia brand is the best one I can find (stay away from truvia if possible!) and has no calories. The few TBSP of light original or light vanilla is between 10-20 calories. The light vanilla is sweeter, but it also gives you more sugar. I usually stick with the light original.0
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Milk or cream. I like my coffee way, way too much. I guess that is part of living in the Pacific Northwest is having a cup of joe every where you go.
Most days I just use 2% milk, but on the weekends I like to have some half and half in my coffee. Cinnamon is also very good sprinkled on top. Cinnamon is an anti-inflammatory spice, so it can help you heal after a particularly hard workout, too.
The other nice thing about being in the PNW is the sheer variety and excellence of coffee shops and roasting companies. It seems like the whole craft brewery industry has shown the light so-to-speak, to the PNW coffee industry. (And no, I'm not talking about Starbucks....)
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This may sound crazy, but coffee doesn't have to be bitter. I learned this when a friend made me a cup in her French Press.
Over time I've gone from only drinking coffee that had so much stuff in it that I couldn't actually taste the coffee to drinking coffee completely black. That being said, I've probably become a bit of a coffee snob...I think that Dunkin Donuts & Starbucks brewed coffee is incredibly bitter & if I'm in a situation where I'm drinking it, I do have to cut it with a bit of sweetener. I even keep an Aeropress at work because I want GOOD coffee.
I still sometimes treat myself to a more dessert like coffee every now & then, but it's really more of a special occasion thing for me.0 -
I don't add sugar to my coffee. A long time ago I got used to the taste of coffee without sugar because the tea & coffee club we had at work never kept sugar and I never remembered to bring my own.
I also like semi-skimmed milk in mine and have not really gone to any trouble to find a lower calorie alternative. For me that is 160 calories a day and for me there are easier targets for reducing my calorie intake than this. Just about the first thing I did when starting this diet was to halve the amount of breakfast cereal I ate which saved about 260 calories/day.0 -
I used to add sweetened creamer to my coffee. You know the ones-hazlenut, or mint or caramel, etc. I finally switched over to unflavoured half n half. Oddly enough, it helped me cut out my sweet cravings.0
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I use any name brand full fat regular sugar creamer. I use 1 TBS (35 calories) per 10 oz cup. I have 1-4 cups (mostly 1-2) a day so I waste 140 calories max. I find that it helps surpress appetite and quenches cravings for rich and creamy deserts.0
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I like a packet of stevia and vanilla almond milk or rice milk in my coffee in the AM - agreed - can't live without it!0
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Over time I managed to switch from creamer to milk, to skim milk, to black. I still put 1 splenda in it because I don't like the bitterness and am not ready for that yet, but I do get it down to zero calories (or whatever is in the coffee, 5 or whatever).
I gradually got rid of my cream and sugar as well and now drink it black, but when I first started out the nutritionist at the gym said if you only enjoy your coffee with cream and sugar that consider it your treat! Who wants to start their day with a bad cup of coffee :-)
Good luck-there seem to be many great suggestions here!!0 -
i love coffee too.
i drink it with 1 tablespoon of half and half. No sugar needed, as i'm already sweet enough
hahah
and i'm okay with it. I only have 1 a day.. and i'll warm it up in the afternoon if I do need another jolt. other than that I should move to skim milk, and eventually I will, slowly just like I did with cutting out the sugar.
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I am addicted to coffee! I"m latin and it's part of our everyday all day routine. I did manage wheen myself a bit and lowered my coffee intake to two cups a day. I use half and half or FAT FREE creamer. I use 1 tsp of sugar. I used to be an avid DD's coffee drinker but found that a light and sweet medium coffee was almost 200 calories and tons of fat. So i switched to McD's coffee or i make my own. I will not stop drinking coffee. There is a myth that is doesn't let you lose weight or makes you gain belly fat, however i found just the opposite and i haven't had any issue w/ losing belly fat !!! so take that coffee haters !!!!!0
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Most every morning i drink my first cup of coffee with Cinnamon Dymatize protein mixed in which substitutes for my creamer and sweetner plus gives me 24g protein! Yum, Cinnamon coffee! Then, if I want another cup of coffee with sweetner and a lower cal creamer, I drink it. No guilt as it is the only liquid calories I consume other than protein drinks each day.0
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"I like my coffee black, taters fried, football games on Monday night. Thats just who I am. A meat and potatoes man!"0
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It depends on the coffee. When I am at work, since we have no creamer here, I use a couple of packets of splenda, which makes the calorie content very low (usually 3-5 calories, depending on the brand of coffee).
When I am home, I use three tablespoons of Coffee-Mate Fat Free French Vanilla Creamer which is 25 calories per tablespoon and my coffee is 4 calories per 10 oz. So the total calories for my home coffee is 79 calories.
I usually drink two cups on the weekends and one cup during the week, so if I know I am having two cups, I make sure I work out to burn at least that amount of calories OR, eat something that has less calories for lunch and/or dinner that night.0 -
No but really.....sometimes I want a flavor in my coffee. Since I normally drink the bold flavors (euro blend), I sometimes go for the hazelnut coffee, or chocolate. Since it is blended in with the coffee, you dont have to add anything. And it is still less calories, virtually none.
<http://www.livestrong.com/article/312775-calories-in-hazelnut-coffee/>0 -
"I like my coffee black, taters fried, football games on Monday night. Thats just who I am. A meat and potatoes man!"
I'm not a man, but ^^ this 100%0 -
I used to need coffee, i was an animal with out it. but i made it a point to SLOWLY ween myself of it. I went from 3- 4 cups a day down to 1-2, now i may have a cup in the morning during the week, but i really only have a cup on sundays if i have any at all. I work out as soon as i wake up so that definetly gets the juices flowing, and i really don't need the caffeeine. So i find that now when i do have a cup i REALLY enjoy it. The other thing is...I drink it black. and i have for years. I couldn't tell you the last time i put sugar or cream in my coffee. even espresso, i'll rub a little lemon rhine on the rim of the cup but thats it no sweetener.
Try it black, you might like it0 -
Everyone in my family drinks it black they say I drink "baby coffee"
I started out using a packet of artificial sweetener and a heck of a lot of skim.
I gradually weaned myself down to 1/2 packet of sweetener, then switch to real sugar, then 1/2 packet of sugar and now usually none.
I still use skim now, but less.
If I'm cranky or need comfort food or just want a treat. I'll do sugar (16 cal) and skim (20 cal)
I would like to get used to drinking it black, just because it's so much easier.0
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